We just got back from some fun times in Hollywood! One important part of the planning and packing was, of course, the travel knitting. The one yarn shop that it was possible for me to visit was no longer in business, so no souvenir yarn from this trip. I did have a shawl on circular needles for my airplane project,… Continue Reading Seeing Stars
Continue reading →As I was closing in on finishing the Ithilien Brocade Jacket, I was finally faced with some decisions that had been pretty easy to put off until that point. I knew generally where I wanted to go with it, but couldn’t hammer out some of those details until I actually got there. One of those areas was the collar; the… Continue Reading Ithilien finishing details
Continue reading →Although I do not plan to publish the pattern for Ithilien Brocade Jacket, I did want to detail some of the construction ideas I experimented with. Waist Shaping: I wanted this to be a fitted garment; and with the detailed stitch pattern, I knew I’d need to plan the shaping to happen at ‘seamlines’. Since I knit it in the… Continue Reading Ithilien construction details
Continue reading →I finally have the chart finished, in what I hope will be its final version. The original version is about a year and a half old, and this one is actually very similar; the main difference is in the details of the chart itself. That turned out to be more interesting than I expected – trying to figure out how… Continue Reading Ithilien Brocade chart
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